Top 50 albums of the 60s

Solely pop based. Hendrix and Doors were rock, and thus not good enough to get into it. Several nice albums, but not quite good enough to compete with the best genre there is.

As for "Forever Changes", it must have come close.

1. Pet Sounds – Beach Boys
6. The Notorious Byrd Brothers – The Byrds
7. Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel
16. Present Tense – Sagittarius
24. Surfer Girl – Beach Boys
33. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo – The Byrds
35. Beach Boys Today! – Beach Boys
36. Crosby Stills & Nash – Crosby Stills & Nash*
38. Mr. Tambourine Man – The Byrds
41. If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears – Mamas & The Papas
42. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme – Simon & Garfunkel
43. Fifth Dimension – The Byrds
44. Summer Days (And Summer Nights) – Beach Boys
45. Buffalo Springfield Again – Buffalo Springfield
46. All Summer Long – Beach Boys
50. Daydream – Lovin’ Spoonful

* Well, almost....

Family? The Mamas and the Papas? Who in the world besides you would choose the first Family LP as one of the best records of the '60s? Where is Roger Chapman right now, touring in Belgium? I got to give you credit for sticking by your whatever you pack there, in your dank little pop dystopia.

Or the Beatles either, for that matter.

Mention one black pop album from the 60s with one hundred per cent original songs.

Pop music is soft, but not necessarily middle of the road. It has almost one hundred per cent European influences with hardly any African or American influences at all.

They may not, but the only two Stones albums that made my list are the ones which are hated by most Stones fans for being "too pop".

Like everybody else who has tried, Stones were better when doing melodic pop than when doing rock'n'roll.

Jimi Hendrix too. Yeah, "Hey Joe." Well, what about the Beach Boys and their "Sloop John B."?

"Sweetheart of the Rodeo"? How is "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" "European," Geir?

The Stones sucked at melodic pop, except for "Dandelion" and "2000 Light Years." Their best shit is straight outta Muscle Shoals and the gutter running alongside Beale Street.

I know someone said not to argue with you and it's true, good advice, but you are just somethin' else, man...

I don't care what skin colour somebody has or doesn't have.

Anyway, I just checked and I must have forgotten "Froever Changes" both in my 1968 list and in my 60s list. I'd put it at #33, below "Begin Here" but above "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo"

I did start to wonder, because I do actually consider the album a quite nice one.

She's a Rainbow

While not necessarily one hundred per cent, an album will need to consist of at least mainly original songs. The people at Motown (Atlantic always sucked anyway) never cared much about albums during the 60s, it wasn't until "What's Goin' On" that the first throughoutly great album by a soul act was released.

As for those early Beatles albums, they are not what I would consider consistent albums, but the originally composed 60 per cent of the songs are so strong that still makes them good albums.

Haven't quite gotten round to buy the "There's Gonna Be a Storm" CD, but chances are I'll like it. I love what I've heard by them

Prize to the first person to stuff the Atlantic Rhythm & Blues box down...arrrgh! do not feed the whatever-he-is!

Otis Redding to thread!

All of his albums contained mainly cover versions of songs that had already been hits by other acts.

The only really well-known songs that he originated were "Respect" and "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" (although a lot of people would claim Aretha Franklin's cover is the definite version of the former)

Yes, "These Arms of Mine," "Security," "Chained and Bound," "Mr. Pitiful," "I Can't Turn You Loose," "Just One More Day," "My Lover's Prayer," "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)," "I've Got Dreams to Remember," "Open the Door," and "Think About It" are all really obscure and awful aren't they?